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Patented Aug. 11, 1891.

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CHARLES O. BURNS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BURNS & BARCLAYCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SAVINGS-RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 457,576, dated August11, 1891.

Application led December 10,1890. Serial No. 374,126. (No model.) i

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. BURNS, of New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improveme'nt inSavings-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to produce a receptacle for savingscapable of being employed in connection with banks of deposit by beingdistributed among depositors, so as to be retained at their places ofabode for receiving savings and subsequently delivered to the bank,where they may be unlocked and their contents removed.

I will describe a bank embodying my improvement, and then point out thenovel features in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a top view of a receptacleembodying' myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ot' thereceptacle, taken at the plane of the dotted line :I: ax, Fig. l. Fig. 3is a front view of the receptacle.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a receptacle, preferably made of metal in such manner as tobe of requisite strength to form a safe deposit for savings. It is shownas made of rectangular form and as having a transverse partition Aintermediate of its ends, and a removable cover A2, that extendsentirely across the front. The partition divides it into twocompartments. Each compartment has combined with it a coin chute oropening A3. As here shown, these coin chutes or openings are arranged inthe top and parallel with the ends of the receptacle. They extend welldown into the compartments, so as to reduce the liability of the passageof a coin from the compartments. Springs a may becombined with theinterior of the chutes to conduce to this result. It will be seen thatthe springs are secured at one end to an inner wall of the chute andextend downward and entirely across the chute, thus forming a pocketbetween the spring andV wall to which it is att-ached, linto which acoin will fall should the receptacle be inverted and prevent the outwarddischarge of the coin.

Any suitable lock may be combined with the cover Az for the purpose ofsecuring it.

It will be seen that the whole receptacle is portable.

The cover is intended to be locked by the bank in connection with whichthe receptacle is employed and the key retained by the bank officials.

Owing to the construction of the receptacle, so as to have a number ofcompartments, it can be used by two persons-as, for instance, twomembers ot1 a family. Of course it might have a greater number ofcompartments and then would have a corresponding number of coin-chutes.use by a greater number of people.

I have shown the receptacle as provided with a swinging handle tofacilitate moving it from place to place.

When the receptacle is taken to the bank, its cover may be removed (bywhich I mean it may be wholly detached or simply opened) and thecontents of the several compartments will be removed and credited to theaccounts of the persons to whom the compartments are appropriated.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, with a receptacle for coin having a number ofcompartments and an opening. common to all of said compartments, of acover adapted to be locked in said opening, a coin-chute for each ofsaid compartments, and a spring within each chute, the said spring beingsecured at one end to an inner wall of the chute and extending to theopposite inner wall and forming a pocket adapted to receive a coin whenthe receptacle is inverted, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES O. BURNS.

Vitnesses:

S. O. EDMoNDs, C. R. FERGUSON.

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